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A Rare Opportunity To Acquire One Of Aviemore's Most Distinguished Homes, Offering Panoramic Views Across The Cairngorm Mountain And Spey Valley Championship Golf Course. Two South Facing Lounges Offering Incredible Views Principle Bedroom With 4 Piece Bathroom Suite & Walk-In Wardrobe Principle Bedroom With 4 Piece Bathroom Suite & Walk-In Wardrobe Substantial Garden Grounds Private Driveway & Triple Car Garage Aviemore is a bustling village situated within the Cairngorms National Park. It is on the main rail line from Inverness/London and is just off the A9 giving easy access to all parts of the UK. Inverness Airport is approximately 40 miles away with regular daily flights to London and other UK destinations. Aviemore village itself offers many amenities, including a new primary school, shops, restaurants, hotels and bars, amongst other attractions. There is a leisure and conference centre, funicular railway on Cairngorm, Strathspey steam railway and the new championship Spey Valley Golf Course at Dalfaber, all of which have contributed to enhancing the area and creating an all year round centre of tourism excellence. Dalfaber Park is one of Aviemore's most prestigious and sought-after residential locations, celebrated for its tranquil setting, generous plot sizes, and spectacular views across the Cairngorm Mountains and Spey Valley. The development is characterised by an attractive mix of high-quality, detached homes, many of which enjoy panoramic views over the Spey Valley Championship Golf Course. Wide tree-lined avenues, landscaped gardens, and a sense of space create an appealing blend of privacy and community. In short, Dalfaber Park is the perfect choice for those seeking an exclusive address in the heart of the Highlands, combining natural beauty, recreational opportunities, and a welcoming community atmosphere. Craigowrie, 14 Dalfaber Park, Aviemore Offers Over £895,000 A rare opportunity to acquire one of Aviemore's most distinguished homes, with panoramic views across the Cairngorm Mountains and Spey Valley Championship Golf Course. 'Craigowrie' is an exceptional five-bedroom detached villa set within approximately 1.2 acres of beautifully landscaped garden grounds, enjoying a commanding position overlooking the Spey Valley Championship Golf Course. Offering elegance, space, and an unrivalled outlook, this remarkable property is designed for those seeking a truly outstanding Highland residence. Accommodation The expansive and versatile layout has been thoughtfully designed to maximise light, views, and comfort. The accommodation includes: * Five well-proportioned bedrooms * Three bathrooms and three WCs * Two formal lounges offering breathtaking views * Open-plan kitchen and dining area - perfect for family life and entertaining * Bright sunroom with wraparound views of the Cairngorms * Family room and dedicated home office * Utility room and triple car garage Features & Specification * Oil-fired central heating and full double glazing * Open fireplace for a warm, traditional touch * Immaculately maintained landscaped gardens extending to approx. 1.2 acres * Prime location within one of Aviemore's most sought-after residential areas The Setting Occupying a prime position in Dalfaber Park, Craigowrie offers uninterrupted views widely regarded as the best in the valley. The location combines the peace and privacy of a prestigious residential enclave with close proximity to Aviemore's amenities, outdoor pursuits, and transport links. Summary This is more than a home - it is a lifestyle opportunity. Ideal for families, professionals, or those seeking a luxurious Highland retreat, Craigowrie blends spacious, high-quality living with an extraordinary natural backdrop. OUTSIDE Garage Integrated triple car garage with electric up and over doors, power and lighting. Spacious storeroom. Internal pedestrian access door allowing access to the property. The vast well maintained garden grounds are enclosed by post and wire fencing and laid to lawn with some mature plants, trees and shrubs. There is a large, paved patio area to the front which offerings the most incredible views. Gravel parking area to the side with access to spacious storage sheds. Outside tap and oil tank. INCLUDED Fitted floor coverings, light fittings and all integrated kitchen appliances. Other items are available by separate negotiation. SERVICES Mains electricity, water and drainage. COUNCIL TAX Currently council tax band G (£3991 per annum) Including water rates. Discounts available for single occupancy. HOME REPORT A Home Report is available. Please use the following link: * Postcode: PH22 1QF * Reference: https://app.onesurvey.org/Pdf/HomeReport?q=wFzUxfEC3JqJLyf7%2bd9qUA%3d%3d * Energy Performance Certificate Rating: Band D * Home Report Value: £875,000 PRICE Offers Over £895,000 are invited for this property. The seller reserves the right to accept or refuse a suitable offer at any time. OFFERS Formal offers should be submitted to our office in Aviemore. VIEWING Viewing is strictly by appointment only through the Selling Agents. CONSUMER PROTECTION FROM UNFAIR TRADING REGULATIONS 2008 The above particulars, although believed to be correct, are not guaranteed, and any measurements stated therein are approximate only. Purchasers should note that the Selling Agents have NOT tested any of the electrical items or mechanical equipment (e.g. oven, central heating system etc.) included in the sale. Any photographs used are purely illustrative and may demonstrate only the surrounds. They are NOT therefore to be taken as indicative of the extent of the property, or that the photographs are taken from within the boundaries of the property, or what is included in the sale.

Barbuie Estate – A Tranquil Retreat with Excellent ConnectivityBarbuie lies just outside the charming village of Moniaive, less than 8 miles from Thornhill, and is surrounded by the historic Buccleuch and Queensberry estates. This peaceful rural setting offers both seclusion and convenience, with excellent local amenities and schooling options.Families benefit from a primary school in Moniaive and Wallace Hall Academy in Thornhill, with school transport available. Thornhill also boasts an 18-hole golf course, squash and tennis facilities, a health centre, pharmacy, dentist, bank, post office, library, and a variety of shops.Moniaive is a vibrant village with a strong arts and crafts community, hosting annual music festivals. It offers a general store, post office, pub, café, acclaimed restaurant, and a community shop. Medical practices are available in Moniaive, Dunscore, and Thornhill.Outdoor enthusiasts will love the area’s renowned hill walking, mountain biking, and rich wildlife. Dumfries, just 17 miles southeast, provides major supermarkets, high street shopping, a university campus, college, and diverse dining and healthcare options.For city access, Glasgow is only 70 miles to the north—around 1.5 hours via the M74—offering world-class amenities, culture, and transport links. Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick Airports are all under 2 hours drive time offering both Domestic and International flights. The West Coast Mainline can be accessed at Lockerbie, 50mins to the east with connections to London in around 4hours.BarbuieBarbuie House is the most delightful Georgian Category C listed farmhouse, originally built in the mid 18th century. This impressive family home is set in glorious garden grounds and enjoys a tranquil and unspoilt rural location.Surrounded by open countryside, it also benefits from the Dalwhat Water meandering through the estate. Largely sustainable on its own heat and power, there are a range of outbuildings and stores to include a farm office, studio, workshops, boiler & woodchip store, byre and garage.Built of traditional construction under a slate roof, the house offers well proportioned rooms, retained period features and a flexible layout. The property has been renovated over recent years including being completely re-wired but still offers scope to improve further and put your own stamp on it.The extensive grounds include wooded areas; a charming walled garden; pond, with jetty suitable for boating or swimming; a loch; a south facing terrace, and extensive parking.ACCOMMODATIONA part glazed front door opens into the welcoming hallway, which offers direct access to the drawing room and sitting room and has carpeted stairs leading to the first floor. The charming drawing room is filled with natural light and enjoys a triple aspect, with multi-fuel stove and French doors opening out to the garden. The sitting room also has a multifuel stove, recessed display shelving and enjoys views over the front garden and beyond.The kitchen/dining room is an excellent size, with double height ceiling and a dual aspect, as well as glazed doors leading to both the inner courtyard and to the front terrace and garden. The kitchen is fitted with a range of solid wood units and complementary worksurfaces, and there is an electric Aga (connected to the solar and hydro systems). Adjacent to the kitchen is a useful pantry/store area, with WC off.Also on the ground floor is a flexible use room, presently used as an office, which in turn leads through to a generous utility room with shower room beyond. Timber stairs from the utility room lead up to a games/TV room, with exposed stone walls and rafters, a mezzanine area and an adjoining guest bedroom that boasts direct access to the walled garden.There are three generous double bedrooms on the first floor. Two of the bedrooms are to the front elevation and have lovely open views. The principal bedroom also has an ensuite dressing room with WC; there is plenty of room to add in a bath and/or shower here too if desired. The third double bedroom has a charming fireplace and views over the walled garden to the rear. The family bathroom comprises a traditional roll top bath, WC, wash hand basin, large walk-in shower (mains) and exposed painted floorboards.Stairs from the first-floor landing continue up to the second floor, where three bright attic bedrooms can be found. The larger bedrooms have double glazed windows to the front elevation, with lovely views, and the smaller bedroom has a skylight window. A WC completes the accommodation on the top floor.OutsideA pillared entrance with gravelled driveway leads to a large parking area at the side of the house, and then also splits, with the remainder of the driveway leading to Barbuie Cottage and additional outbuildings.Within the courtyard of the house are two workshops, a biomass boiler store, woodchip store, two general stores with insulated studio/party/games room above, garage and kennel.The property is set within beautiful established walled garden grounds comprising wooded areas, lawns, sunny terrace and specimen trees and plants. The Dalwhat Water meanders through the garden, and there is a large pond with a jetty.To the northwest of the house is a traditional 2 storey barn that offers scope for redevelopment subject to the necessary planning consents. This is an exciting opportunity for the creation of perhaps an annexe for a relative, a large home office, or perhaps holiday let accommodation.The Cottage:Barbuie Cottage is a charming, detached 1½ storey traditional cottage, with private parking and enclosed gardens to the front and rear, with a decked area to the front, a terrace at the rear, lawns, established trees and a greenhouse and a timber shed within a small kitchen garden.Largely sustainable on its own heat and power, the accommodation comprises an entrance hall, kitchen/dining room, sitting room, large conservatory, utility/cloakroom, and 3-4 bedrooms. The kitchen has a range of fitted units and ample space for a dining table and chairs, while the sitting room boasts an open fire within a stone surround.There are two well-proportioned double bedrooms on the ground floor, along with a bathroom comprising electric shower over the bath, WC and wash hand basin.Upstairs, two bright attic bedrooms can be found, both with velux windows.Upper Bardennoch:This semi-derelict cottage sits high on the hill above Barbuie and offers potential for development to provide a 3 or 4 bedroom off-grid cottage benefitting from outstanding views across the valley.The vendors had detailed architect proposals prepared and these plans can be provided to interested parties.The cottage benefits from a spring water supply but would need a sewerage treatment plant installed and off grid electricity supply.The Buildings:There is an array of outbuildings suitable for a variety of purposes or further conversion or development (subject to consent) and include:Sheep shed: 45.92m x 15.05m plus 23.07m x 8.04m . The principal agricultural building is a steel portal framed slatted sheep shed housing sheep buchts and providing general storage, with plenty of height for an additional floor or general development.Woodship shed: 8.93m x 18.04m A modern steel portal frame shed with partial concrete floor provides secure machinery storage and open-fronted main wood chip storage.Open fronted stock shed: 23.33m x 7.37mThe traditional range of buildings adjacent and surrounding the house includes a former byre suitable for conversion or development (subject to consent), 2 secure workshop/quad bike garages, biomass and boiler house and carports/wood stores.The Land:Comprised of the farming lands of Caitloch, Bardennoch and Barbuie Farms which extend to 877 claimed acres (SGRPID 354.90ha) or thereabouts including c.150 silagable acres; 454 acres good permanent pasture; 240acres hill ground and 33 acres of forestry. The land is well draining; there are good water supplies (a mix of natural and trough) in all land parcels and the dykes, fences and gates are in good condition and stock proof. The land is all currently in grass and has had Lime and Fertiliser applied recently and is in good heart. Offered for sale with vacant possession upon completion, the land is currently managed on Seasonal Grass lets. Details of the current lets can be provided to interested parties.Renewables:The current owners have put in place multiple renewable energy schemes, generating significant incomes , to include:Biomass Boiler - 75kw woodchip boiler on Index linked commercial RHI tariff, with c.9 years remaining.Hydro Electric turbine – 12kw turbine on Index Linked Feed in Tariff with c.14 years remaining.Solar - 8kW of Photovoltaic panels (2 x c.4kw) on Index Linked Feed in Tariff with c.13 years remaining.These renewable schemes also provide free heat and electricity for the Estate, resulting in significant running cost savings.Opportunities:Barbuie is a diverse estate offering immediate profits, with extensive opportunities to generate and develop estate revenues further.The current owners have professionally investigated proposals for fish breeding in the water bodies, including commercial fishing; forestry and biomass drying and production; woodland creation (including significant potential for carbon credit income) and further development of the buildings as well as potential for enhanced and further renewable schemes including pumped Hydro Electric potential.Many of these could be developed in conjunction with traditional farming, either in-hand or by letting the land on seasonal grass lets or longer-term tenancies.Details of these proposals can be provided to genuinely interested parties.General Remarks and Stipulations:Tenure and Possession: The Heritable (Scottish equivalent of Freehold) title is offered for sale with vacant possession upon completion. The land is currently being managed on Seasonal Grass lets. Details of the current let scan be provided to interested parties.Matters of Title: The property is sold subject to all existing servitude rights, burdens, reservations and wayleaves, including rights of access and rights of way whether contained in the Title Deeds or informally constituted and whether referred to in the General Remarks and Stipulations or not. The Purchaser(s) will be held to have satisfied themselves as to the nature of such servitude rights and others.Mines & Minerals: All mines and mineral rights are included insofar as they are owned.Sporting rights: All sporting and fishing rights are included.BPS: The land is all registered with SGRPID and extends to 354.90ha all of which has been claimed every year. A total of 237.49 Region 1 Entitlements and 58.23 Region 2 Entitlements are included in the sale. The purchaser shall pay to the selling agents £250 + VAT to cover the costs of transferring the entitlements and completion of the relevant paperwork. The vendors will retain the full payment for 2025.Timber: All standing timber is included in the sale. All felled timber stacked in the yard is to form part of the ingoings.Ingoings: The purchaser shall be obliged to purchase the felled timber; woodchip and diesel at market value at the point of sale.Fixtures and Fittings: All standard fixtures and fittings are to be included in the sale.EPC Rating: Barbuie Farmhouse - E ; Barbuie Cottage – CCouncil Tax: Barbuie Farmhouse – F; Barbuie Cottage - AServices: Mains electricity together with 8kw of Solar panels and Hydro electric turbine generating electricity for on site usage. Mains water and private septic tank (please note that the septic tank is registered with SEPA). The biomass boiler provides both hot water and heating to both dwellings and all of the connected stone outbuildings and has the potential to provide further heat to the former byre, converted or otherwise. Partially double glazed.Viewings: Strictly by appointment through the selling agents, C&D Rural. Tel 01228 792299Offers: Offers should be submitted in Scottish Legal Form to the selling agents. The owner reserves the right to sell without imposing a closing date and will not be bound to accept the highest, or indeed any, offer. All genuinely interested parties are advised to instruct their solicitor to note their interest with the Selling Agents immediately after inspection.Money Laundering Obligations: We are required by law to carry out Anti Money Laundering Checks once an offer has been accepted. We use an external agency to conduct these checks. Once an offer has been agreed, Coadjute will contact you to complete the checks electronically. A fee of £45 + VAT per person will apply and will be processed by Coadjute. If you have any queries please contact the office.Website and Social Media: Further details of this property as well as all others offered by C&D Rural are available to view on our website www.cdrural.co.uk. For updates and the latest properties like us on facebook.com/cdrural and Instagram on @cdrural.Referrals: C&D Rural work with preferred providers for the delivery of certain services necessary for a house sale or purchase. Our providers price their products competitively, however you are under no obligation to use their services and may wish to compare them against other providers. Should you choose to utilise them C&D Rural will receive a referral fee.